Railstutorial.org is a great resource for learning testing with rspec. Pragprog.com has a great testing book.
Banks Sent from my iPhone On May 22, 2011, at 6:54 AM, egervari <[email protected]> wrote: > Oh, one more thing: > > One of the biggest things I find myself googling is testing. Because > so much magic happens, I am always googling to find out "how do I test > this?!" I seem to come up with testing gotchas and problems all the > time. > > Googling about testing actually results in very poor results. For > example, if you google testing validations, you will come across Ruby > 2.0 testing code that is obsolete... or you'll find a way of testing > that doesn't cover all the cases and is kind of bloated. You'd think > one would not have to reinvent the wheel about "how to test > validations", but that's actually what happened in my case (my > solution I coded myself is rather quite nice... I wish I saw it online > though :/) > > Once you throw in Devise into the mix, testing gets even more > complicated. For example, devise gives you the necessary methods when > testing controllers, but will not include them for Helpers - even if > you specify that it should. It's really very odd behaviour. This type > of random "doesn't just work" situation seems to happen all the time > for me. > > Anyway, maybe now I am just venting. I am finding the whole "learning > a new platform" to be perhaps a lot more work than I thought it would > be. > > I'm starting to think a "bloated Java programmer who's REALLY good at > that bloat" can probably still produce faster than someone learning > Rails. Of course, eventually, the Rails programmer will outpace him... > but it might take awhile. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
